Literary gunslinger Eugene S. Robinson lends his "one"-of-a-"kind" "perspective" to The Sport That Performance Enhancing Drugs Have Wrought and the only sensible way to go for a way forward into a brave new world of fighters needing to dig down deep to compete. All brought to a point at MIR v BIGFOOT's UFC Fight Night. Plus: a fight challenge. Which he has gladly accepted. read news >>

Denis Smoldarev and former heavyweight champion Kenny Garner capped off a submission-filled event on Saturday afternoon in Georgia. M-1 Global's first event of 2015 took place on Saturday afternoon in Tbilisi, Georgia. The event was one produced as a tribute to the promotion's fallen former heavyweight champion Guram Gugenishvili, and featured a wide array of submissions throughout the evening. The main event of the evening saw former heavyweight title challenger Denis Smoldarev finish Maro Pera read news >>

Bloody Elbow is on-site in Tbilisi, Georgia for M-1 Challenge 55. Here are the results of Friday's weigh-ins and pictures of the main carders squaring off. This Saturday, Russia's top-promotion M-1 Global will make it's debut in Tbilisi, Georgia with a packed card that features hard-hitting heavyweights, tough Eastern-European prospects and a UFC veteran. M-1 Challenge 55 will be hosted in memory of late Georgian heavyweight and former M-1 champion Guram Gugenishvili, who died in a tragic car ac read news >>

Rory MacDonald will challenge Robbie Lawler for the UFC welterweight title on July 11th at UFC 189 in Las Vegas. The next welterweight title fight is set. At today's UFC press conference that was apparently just going to be about drug testing, UFC president Dana White announced that Rory MacDonald will challenge Robbie Lawler for the title on July 11th at UFC 189. It is the second title fight set for the card as of right now. MacDonald (18-2) has faced Lawler once before, dropping a split decisi read news >>

In this week’s Trading Shots, Danny Downes and Ben Fowlkes spar over whether Benson Henderson did enough to make fans care at UFC Fight Night 60, and why that code seems so hard to crack for so many fighters.Filed under: News, UFC read news >>

Why is Greg Jackson so concerned about Anthony Johnson? Well, the general consensus heading into his pupil's light heavyweight title defense, presumably at UFC 187, is that Jon Jones will be facing the hardest puncher in the entire 205-pound weight class. Simply put: whatever "Rumble" hits, he destroys. "As far as raw power, I don't think anybody hits harder in the division than Johnson," Jackson told ESPN. "We've cornered against Johnson before, and he is such an impressive dude. His punch, goo read news >>

M-1 Global announced the rematch between Vyacheslav Vasilevsky vs. Ramasan Emeev as the headlining bout for M-1 Challenge 56 in Moscow. On September 7, 2014, fans witnessed an entertaining middleweight title fight that saw the two competitors take part in a grueling battle that only came to an end late in the fourth round of action. The conclusion of the M-1 Challenge 51 event saw the crowning of a new champion, Vyacheslav Vasilevsky, and now, just seven months later, former champion Ramasan Eme read news >>

Conor McGregor's upcoming title challenge against UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will be in Las Vegas, as expected, however talks of a May date appear to have been premature. Immediately following McGregor's recent win over Dennis Siver, UFC President Dana White announced that the promotion was targeting a slot around Memorial Day weekend for the Irishman's blockbuster title fight. But McGregor's head coach at SBG Ireland, John Kavanagh, said Tuesday that plans have now been pushed back to read news >>